Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The Bodyguard in Manila

I signal to an in coming cab heading my way! I told him where I wanna go and he agreed to go to my destination. During my trip back to hotel, as usual, we had small talk, and later I found out he was driving cab as part timer only. His actual profession is a body guard. His previous boss who is a businesman has gone back to China and he lost his job.

He then went on telling me his experience, and most of the target for the kidnappers are mostly Chinese, American or British. In fact in Manila, the richest guy is a Chinese-Pinoy. Naturally, most of his bosses were from these countries and money was good. He explained that usually the kidnappers will study their target before they take any action. They will tail you see where you shop, where you hangout, basically to evaluate if you are worth the price and willing to pay the ransom!

After listening to him, I have decided to go to fastfood, wear simple tee-shirt, and do not shop at expensive areas! Keep it low may avoid all these unnecessary worries!

1 comment:

rotitelur said...

This is what you should do all the time!